Oil fields

Al Seib / Los Angeles Times

Pump jacks dot oil fields near Taft. The town is saddled with high unemployment and memories of past glory days, but residents hope for a second boom from oil trapped miles underground in dense rock formations.

Pump jacks dot oil fields near Taft. The town is saddled with high unemployment and memories of past glory days, but residents hope for a second boom from oil trapped miles underground in dense rock formations. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Pump jacks dot oil fields near Taft. The town is saddled with high unemployment and memories of past glory days, but residents hope for a second boom from oil trapped miles underground in dense rock formations.